Screenwriting links: Friday, September 20

Why I sued Hollywood on behalf of unpaid interns everywhere [Quartz]

Making a Movie is Easy: A 3-Step Process that Worked for 'Prisoners' [Hollywood Journal]

Brand Suffers Most From Spat Between Owner and Hollywood Blogger
[New York Times]

Mindy on The Mindy Project Needs to Stay Unlikable—for the Good of TV [The Atlantic]

When Did Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner Take Over TV? [The Hollywood Reporter]

Legitimacy Pending: A Field Guide To Meetings – Breaking into TV Writing [Script Mag]

For TV Shows, It's a Seller's Market: Broadcasters No Longer Have First Dibs in Race for Original Series [Wall Street Journal]

5 Secret Tips To Writing A Successful Short Story [Huffington Post]

Molly McAleer, '2 Broke Girls' Writer, Talks Being 'Deeply Single' And Success [Huffington Post]

Television co-showrunners guide new talent [Maclean's]

Screenwriting links: Friday, September 13

The Rise of the Television Show About Watching TV [IndieWire]

Don't Do Research When You Hit Your Writing Groove [LifeHacker]

5 TV Rules That Aren’t Rules Anymore [The Wrap]

Dreams do come true: Oklahoma film accountant turns screenwriter for 'The Ultimate Gift' [Hispanic Business]

Screenwriting links: Saturday, September 7

“Something Terrible Has Happened Here”: The Crazy Story Of How “Clue” Went From Forgotten Flop To Cult Triumph [Buzzfeed]

“Where’s the female Woody Allen?” [Salon]

What It's Like to Write for Girls [The Atlantic]

Filmmaker Lynn Shelton: 'There's This Real Deliciousness To Being Able To Do Exactly What You Want To Do' [Huffington Post]

AFF Guest Blog: Todd Linden, 2006 Comedy Teleplay Winner
[Austin Film Festival]

Only 28% of TV Creatives Are Women – And That’s an Improvement [Twirlit]

Better Chemistry Through Research: How Writers Make "Breaking Bad" So Uncomfortably Real [FastCoCreate]

YouTube Pro Series Takes A Look at the Duties of a Showrunner [RealSEO]

Heroines of Cinema: 10 Female Screenwriters You Should Know [Indiewire]

'We Are the Establishment Now': The Coen Brothers Look Wryly At Their Films [NY Times]

Screenwriting links: Saturday, August 31

This Year Was the Turning Point for Intelligent Television [Flavorwire]

Is the Los Angeles film and television industry really in a state of emergency? [SCPR]

Emmys 2013: 'Breaking Bad' writer George Mastras talks 'Dead Freight' and his unusual career path [Zap2It]

Why you can't let rejection dash your hopes [Ken Levine Blog]

How Binge-Watching Is Changing TV: Viewers Date Their Shows [Huffington Post]

In Conversation: The Lifeguard Director Liz W. Garcia Speaks with Vogue [Vogue]

Watch: Kevin Spacey Gives the Edinburgh Television Festival Keynote, Urges TV Execs to Take Risks Film Execs Are Not [Indiewire]

TimesTalk: House of Cards [NY Times]

Writing Tips: 25 Rules For Keeping It Short And Snappy [Huffington Post]

Don’t Ask What I’m Writing [NY Times]

Screenwriting links: Friday, August 23

WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle [NY Times] (Also known as Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing)

Meet 'Drinking Buddies' Director Joe Swanberg, the Man Behind Your Next Favorite Movie [Complex]

'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.' Producers Talk Coulson, Crossovers And More [Huffington Post]

The Business of Screenwriting: Three scripts [Go Into the Story]

The Daily Routines of 12 Famous Writers (And How They Can Help You Succeed) [James Clear]

'Short Term 12' Director Destin Daniel Cretton On His Breakout Success, And A Surprising Rejection Along The Way [International Business Times]

Screenwriting links: Friday, August 16

Fetch my typing helmet! Sam Bain on how to write a screenplay
[The Guardian]

The Secret To Great Storytelling [Forbes]

Disney's 'Planes': ‘When the worst thing we say to a boy is he throws like a girl, we teach boys to disrespect the feminine and disrespect women’ [Reel Girl]

The Secrets of How to Write Short [Time NewsFeed]

Diablo on Demand: Diablo Cody Talks 'Paradise' [WGA.org]

Danny Strong is 'Incredibly Proud' of 'Lee Daniels' The Butler' [HuffPo]

Screenwriting links: Friday, August 9

Lake Bell on Directing 'In a World' [The Dissolve]

Star Script Doctor Damon Lindelof Explains the New Rules of Blockbuster Screenwriting [Vulture]

Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age
[NY Times]

Modern Seinfeld Twitter Account Lands Creator a Sitcom Job
[The Hollywood Reporter]

Watch "The Writer's Room" Season Premiere [Sundance Channel]
Note: Breaking Bad Spoilers

The Hollywood Reporter Unveils the Top 25 Film Schools of 2013
[The Hollywood Reporter]

Scriptwriting Tips From Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright And Nick Frost
[Total Film]

Screenwriting links: Friday, July 26

My first writing job: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ [Death and Taxes]

Inside Look at How Netflix Launches an Original Series [Techland]

The Day Before: Ryan Coogler on Fruitvale Station [Filmmaker Magazine]

For 'Fruitvale Station' director, film school and football pay off [Reuters]

Screenwriters' hard lessons of doing business in Hollywood [LA Times]

40 Inspiring Workspaces Of The Famously Creative [Buzzfeed]

Warner Bros Turns To The Black List To Find Screenwriters In Under-Served Demos [Deadline]

Writers Room' shows TV's creative process [Philly.com]
"Hosted by Jim Rash - the Academy Award-winning cowriter of The Descendants - Sundance Channel's The Writers' Room, which premieres Monday, takes us to the heart of the creative process behind six current shows, including HBO's Game of Thrones, Showtime's Dexter, and FX's American Horror Story."

Screenwriting links: Friday July 19

Tell Their Secrets [NY Times]

Success Through Failure: Writing Teaches Writing [The Script Lab]

We Asked the Screenwriter of Sharknado Some Very Serious Questions [io9]

Focused on Family: Interview w/ The Fosters creators Peter Paige & Bradley Bredeweg [WGA.org]

Screenwriting links, Saturday, July 13

Tig Notaro Says Being a Woman in Comedy Was Never an Issue [Twirlit]

'On Writing' with 'Weeds' and 'Orange is the New Black' pioneer Jenji Kohan  [Examiner]

6 Most Influential Women Writers You've Never Heard Of [Policymic]

It's Not Personal [Vela Magazine] - "But there seemed–not everywhere we went, but frequently enough for it to be a topic of discussion each night over nerve-calming beers–to be several presumptions at work when women pitched these stories: 1) that women would not write a journalistic story unless it had a personal angle and 2) that the personal should trump the journalistic, because what would sell was not necessarily the strength of the writing or reporting but the familiar formula of the young woman on a journey…the cover with a bright daisy and a cast-off pair of flip-flops on a serene beach."

‘Pacific Rim’ Premiere: Screenwriter Says Godzilla, ‘Jurassic Park’ Inspired Him [Variety]

'The X-Files' Turns 20: 'Breaking Bad' Creator On What He Learned From Mulder And Scully [Huffington Post]

Fruitvale Station: Interview Ryan Coogler [The Script Lab]

Black List to Host Inaugural Screenwriters Lab, Mentors Incude Billy Ray and Kiwi Smith [Indiewire]

Screenwriting links: Wednesday, July 3

Kerry Washington Says That It's 'Revolutionary' That White Women Want to be Olivia Pope [Twirlit]

Watch My Show: Twisted's Adam Milch Answers Our Showrunner Survey [TV Guide]

Latter-day Saint screenwriters talk about their movie careers, 'Despicable Me 2' [Deseret News]

8 Things We Learned About 'Freaks and Geeks' Creator Turned Film Director Paul Feig's Career in Comedy [Indiewire]

John Waters Talks To Harmony Korine: Highlights From Their Conversation at the Provincetown International Film Festival [Indiewire]

Emmys: 'House of Cards' Boss Beau Willimon Doesn't 'Give a S--- Whether Anyone Likes My Characters' [Yahoo]

19 Successful People Who Had A Rough Time In Their Twenties [Buzzfeed]

The Seven Ways To Write About Television [NPR]

Hammer of the Gods: Vikings’ Michael Hirst explains why he writes every episode of History’s new hit drama himself [WGA.org]

Screenwriting links, June 21

Getting the Treatment Right [Rocliffe Writing Forum]

How to be Prolific: Guidelines for Getting it Done from Joss Whedon [Fast Co.Create]

Drink Beer for Big Ideas, Coffee to Get Them Done [Life Hacker]

How The Sopranos Changed the Television Industry Forever [Slate]

9 Super-Surprising Screenwriter Credits on Movies [Next Movie]

A Guide to Your Favorite Showrunners' First Shows [Complex]

Matthew Weiner's Creative Solution For Eliminating Doubt [Fast Co. Create]

Q&A: 'True Blood' Showrunner Brian Buckner Spills on Season Six [Rolling Stone]

Screenwriting links: Friday, June 14

The Showrunner Fallacy [New Republic]

10 TV Writers to Watch [Variety]

Night in the Writer's Room - Comedy Panel [Variety]

Night in the Writer's Room - Drama Panel [Variety]

Screenwriting links: Saturday, June 8

Joss Whedon's Passion Project [The Daily Beast]

Empathy-Free Entertainment [The Atlantic]

'Game of Thrones' Showrunner Questions Network TV Violence (Video) [The Hollywood Reporter]

THR Full Emmy Roundtable: Matthew Weiner, Aaron Sorkin and Other Drama Showrunners Debate Violence in Hollywood and Being Control Freaks [The Hollywood Reporter]

Tips on How to Host a Great Script Reading [Write for Hollywood]

How Does the Killing Off Of Major Characters Change How We Watch a Show? [Indiewire]
"Talking to the Hollywood Reporter last month, AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan pointed out that this also means the show could theoretically go on forever, as it's less and less about a coherent group of people and more about a shifting gathering of ragtag survivors in the dusk of humanity."  (Spoilers for Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead)

Amazon Studios Launches Free Storyboard Tool [Variety]

Death to Overly Expository Opening Voiceover Narration [Indiewire]

TV Showrunners to Outshine Filmmakers at 2013 Produced By Conference  [The Hollywood Reporter]
"As the power of the showrunner has grown, the job is now more comparable to that of a feature film's director, functioning as the creative force who provides the vision for the project."

How to Fight Pitch Fatigue [Fast Company]

Screenwriting links: Saturday, June 1

Secrets from inside the TV writer’s room [LA Times]

Q&A: J. Michael Straczynski [Southwestern College Sun]

Joss Whedon's The Avengers Grossed $1.5 Billion. His Next Film? A Shakespeare Play He Shot in His Backyard [LA Weekly]

Q&A: Imagine’s Brian Grazer On ‘Arrested Development’ & ’24′s Comebacks, More ‘Development’ In Works & New Projects [Deadline]

'Now You See Me' Writers Edward Ricourt and Ed Solomon Make Movie Magic [The Wrap]

Interview: Chris Borelli (2009 Black List) [Go Into the Story]

Frances Flawed: Interview with Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig [WGA.org]

Screenwriter Gary Whitta Talks AFTER EARTH, Developing the Story with Will Smith, the Possibility of a Sequel, His Draft of AKIRA, and More [Collider]

Screenwriting links: Wednesday, May 29

'Star Trek Into Darkness' screenwriter Damon Lindelof regrets 'gratuitous' Alice Eve underwear scene [NY Daily News]

Arrested Development Creator Mitch Hurwitz on His Two-Year Odyssey to Revive the Show [Rolling Stone]

How Shakespeare Saved Avengers [NY Times]

Comedy Spec Script 2013: What’s Hot, What’s Not [A TV Calling]

Drama Spec Script 2013: What’s Hot, What’s Not [A TV Calling]

Screenwriters Need to Learn How to Lie Through Their Teeth [The Wrap]

Why Does Hollywood Hate Futuristic Technology? [Tech Crunch]

Screenwriting links: Sunday, May 19

FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest [NYTVF]

Not That Kind of Girl: Liz Meriwether is the anti-Lena Dunham [New Republic]

In Conversation: Vince Gilligan on the End of Breaking Bad [Vulture]

Would You Want to Be Friends With Humbert Humbert?: A Forum on “Likeability” [The New Yorker]

My Life as a Screenwriter You've Never Heard Of [The Hollywood Reporter]

Nerdist Writers Panel with Adam F. Goldberg [Nerdist]

Screenwriting links: Friday, May 10

Inside Amazon's Super-Weird, American Idol-Style TV Series Development Process [LA Weekly]

Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?
[NY Times]

“Bring the Funny”: First of its kind panel explores how female Asian American comedy writers have found a place in the industry [WGA West]

There's a new app that prevents you from having TV shows spoiled on Twitter, so that's all on you now [The AV Club]

Screenwriting links: Friday, May 3

Daily Rituals: Entry 10: Kafka was a great procrastinator [Slate]

Exclusive: The Making of Brad Pitt’s World War Z, from Stunning Budget Overages and a Reshot Ending to Lots of On-Set Drama [Vanity Fair]

Pete Holmes: The 3 Agonizing Stages Between Talk-Show Pilot and Talk Show [Vulture]

'Dexter' screenwriter Scott Reynolds encourages EMU graduates to follow their dreams [AnnArbor.com]

The Business of Screenwriting: Everything you wanted to know about specs [Part 12] [Go Into the Story]

Screenwriting links: Monday, April 28

'Star Wars: Episode VII' screenwriter Michael Arndt is having trouble writing [Vulture/Funny or Die]

Buffalo-born screenwriter is not in Narnia any more [The Buffalo News]

Getting through Writer's Block [BBC Writers Room]

NYTVF: Home for Comedy Voices [ThePit NYC]

The 27 Stages of Getting Addicted to a TV Show [Buzzfeed]

Salman Rushdie Turns Screenwriter for Midnight’s Children [Vulture]

Interview With Screenwriter, Derek Haas; The Formative Years [HuffPo]